A ‘holy’ conspiracy? Not quite
Saibal Mitra’s film A Holy Conspiracy is a definitive document of some of the important ideas competing for India’s soul today. In a little town called Hillolganj, the science…
Anjan Basu
The Exuberant Fatuity of the Indian Neo-Con
Ever too clever by half, he believes common decency is beneath him. In the event, common sense has taken leave of him. When, in July, 2021 Father Stan Swamy…
Preserving the human experiment through one of history’s darkest periods
Positioning itself squarely against what Noam Chomsky calls the ‘Reactionary International’, the Progressive International seeks to unite the forces of sanity and progress around the world A news item…
The picaresque parables Federico Fellini created around lives lived on society’s margins
In ‘La Strada’ and ‘Nights of Cabiria’, Fellini’s boundless formal and narrative energy is married to his profound humanism A still from ‘La Strada’ (1954) To most cinephiles,…
Hirak Rajar Deshe, a fable forty years ahead of its time
Satyajit Ray’s film is a heady cocktail of dystopia and comic fantasy Eleven years after Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (‘The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha’) came its sequel,…
Looking Back At ‘Sadgati’: An Artistic Peak Satyajit Ray Himself Touched Only Rarely
Sadgati (1981) marked a watershed in Satyajit Ray’s career. He suffered a massive heart attack soon after…
No modern-day historian held up the mirror to the ruptured spirit of our culture as fully as Eric Hobsbawm
Hobsbawms’s posthumous collection of essays, ‘Fractured Times- Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century’(2013), is a tour de force of cultural history Eric Hobsbawm ( 9 June, 1917 –…
India under Narendra Modi: A throwback to the Germany of the 1930s, or are we imagining things?
We can choose not to see what we don’t want to – but we can do so only at our own peril As a boy, the German novelist Max von…
The story of the higgledy-piggledy world of the Indian banking industry today
Nothing happening in the country right now seems to surprise us any more, so few people took any notice of a statement made recently by Injeti Srinivas, the Union Secretary…
The Agony and Pathos of Lenin’s Last Days
Ever the clear-eyed realist, Lenin knew what the Revolution had failed to achieve. And this knowledge tormented him in the last weeks of his life. Vladimir Lenin in…
Noam Chomsky: the greatest living challenger of unjust power and delusions
On his 90th birthday, a tribute to the man whose life more than anyone else’s tells us what it takes to be human Six weeks after 9/11, Noam Chomsky was…
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